Tachino Nobuhiro wrote:
> 
>   vmalloc_area_pages() in 2.4.2-ac25 seems to be broken. It calls
> spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock) twice and causes system hang.
> 

Yes, it would.  Delete the innermost lock and unlock.


--- linux-2.4.2-ac25/mm/vmalloc.c       Mon Mar 26 21:38:38 2001
+++ ac/mm/vmalloc.c     Mon Mar 26 21:52:05 2001
@@ -152,9 +152,7 @@
        do {
                pmd_t *pmd;
                
-               spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);    /* pmd_alloc requires this */
                pmd = pmd_alloc(&init_mm, dir, address);
-               spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
                ret = -ENOMEM;
                if (!pmd)
                        break;
-
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